Chicken-house



(No Model.)

J. BURGERT.

CHICKEN HOUSE.

Patented Aug 4, 1885.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH BURGERT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CHICKEN-HOUSE.

QPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,782, dated Au ustApplication filed April 21, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH BURGERT, of the city of St. Louis, in theState of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inChicken-Houses, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart of this specification.

Myinvention relates to compartment chicken-houses in which the nests arelocated in the partition which forms the compartments.

My improvement consists in the construction hereinafter described, andpointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the house. Fig. 2 is a horizontalsection at 2 2, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a vertical section at 3 3,Fig. 2. Fig.4 is an enlarged vertical section of one of the nests, showing thefalling gate open; and Fig. 5 is an inside elevation of a nest, showingthe gate closed.

The house has end walls, A, and side walls, B, and may be made of anysuitable size and form. The interior of the house is divided into threecompartments, 0 G and D, eX- tending from end to end of the house, andseparated from each other by partition-walls containing nests that maybe entered from the side compartments, 0, that are open to the chickensthrough the doorways E. The doorways may be closed by a shutter, F. Thecompartments are entered by doors 0' and D. The side compartments, 0,contain perchframes G, (shown extending the whole length of thecompartments,) and consisting of side rails, G, and cross-bars orperches G The side rail next to the wall B is connected to the wall byhinges, upon which the perch-frame may be turned up and folded againstthe side of the house, as shown in broken lines in Fig. 3. The framesmay be raised by cords or rods connected to the free side of the framesand carried through thewalls of the house, so that the frames may beraised from the outside. The perch-frames are made, of course, largeenough to accommodate all the chickens, and

the compartments 0 large enough to contain them. These frames G may bein two or more tiers, if needed. The building has windows H, whereneeded for light and ventilation. The escape of heated air is providedfor by an adjustable ventilator consisting of a tubular cover, I, thatis adjustable in an opening in the roof, and which has sideperforations,more or less of which are exposed by raising or loweringthe ventilator.

The partitions J may be said to be composed of nests set side by side inhorizontal courses, and each course being set somewhat farther out thanthe course beneath it, leaving a space or trough, j, on the top of eachcourse, except the upper one, to contain food and water for use of thechickens in the nests whose floors are on a level with the troughs,

To prevent the chickens entering the compartment D from the nests, Ihang drop-gates K in front of the nests. The gates have slats betweenwhich the chickens can put their heads to reach the contents of thetroughs j.

Each course of nests has upon the side opening to chamber 0 a rail, L,along which the chickens can pass from nest to nest.

M is a ladder by which the chickens can climb to the nest-rails L.

I claim as my invention 1. In a chicken-house, the combination of theinclined partitions J, containing nests open to both sides of thepartition and arranged in horizontal courses, and each courseoverhanging the course beneath, leaving troughspaces j, and the gates K,closing the inner ends of the nests.

2. An improved chicken-house consisting of the frame A B, provided withthe inclined partitions J, containing nests open to both sides of saidpartitions and arranged in horizontal courses projecting the one overthe other, and the hinged perch-frames G.

JOSEPH 'BURGERT.

WVitnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, BENJN. A. KNIGHT.

